I suppose our new roof came at a good time. As apparently a lot of people have heard, we're having a nor'easter right now (again?). This time, that means (for us, anyway) a lot of rain. Not especially strong rain. Just a whole lot of it. This is causing some significant flooding in some parts--but not these parts. Always good news ( Read more... )

I keep telling myself to stop thinking I'm so uncomfortable right now, because I have three more months to go!

At least I can look at these pictures and say, "hey, I don't look as big as I feel!" But I am looking big. So imagine how I feel.

( Pictures taken Saturday, 25 weeks and 6 days. )

I'd better post my pictures from my trip, because soon I'll get behind! Missy came for a visit, and I have pictures to post from that, too. So let's get to posting. Commentary to follow later.

( Click here to see them, and be warned: there are a lot! )

We're spending Christmas here in Connecticut this year. It will be our first Christmas alone together, without our families. It worked out this way because this year was Thanksgiving in Pensacola/Christmas in Enid, but when it came time for looking to get days off for December, it didn't seem too promising for either one of us. So we're ( Read more... )

We went last night to check out our haunted house again around 8 or 9. Not as late as late can be, but lateish. It wasn't bad on our street. There's a moderate amount of traffic, even foot traffic, but people didn't really seem to be up to no good. All the street lights work. Most of the houses had lights on. Most of the surrounding streets looked ( Read more... )

Last night, we went to the Swing Monkey Halloween Ball 2006It was a nasty day all day, with lots of hard wind and rain. Any leaves that were still clinging desperately to the trees received, perhaps, their final lashing. Since I didn't have anywhere to go and no desire to venture out into the weather, I started getting ready by setting my hair ( Read more... )

Today I kept track of how many cigarettes I smoked by writing a tic mark on my wrist for each.


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I've been waiting for the leaves to get really impressive before going out to take pictures. But I heard on TV that this weekend was probably going to be the peak, and I was kind of disappointed, because they haven't been all that spectacular. I heard last year the fall colors were amazing. This summer, we had a lot of rain, and supposedly that ( Read more... )

Today was a great day. We practiced writing estimates, and I feel really comfortable with that now. And at the end of the day, the trainer quizzed us on the car systems, and I answered almost every question he asked me. I needed only minimal coaching. I remembered every part of the emissions system--though I called the Positive Crankcase ( Read more... )

After I made my last post, I hung around the mall until I pretty much had to leave. Then I found out that Blair's flight was delayed again, but only by half an hour or so. So I got in the car and drove to the airport, which is in the opposite direction of my house from the mall a far enough distance that it didn't make sense to go all the way ( Read more... )